The overflowing brain : information overload and the limits of working memory / Torkel Klingberg ; translated by Neil Betteridge.
Language: English Original language: Swedish Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xiv, 202 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780195372885 (alk. paper)
- 0195372883 (alk. paper)
- OÌversvaÌmmade hjaÌrnan. English
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- BF444 .K5513 2009
- 2008 N-333
- BF 371
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-196) and index.
Introduction : the stone age brain meets the information flood -- The information portal -- The mental workbench -- Models of working memory -- The brain and the magical number seven -- Simultaneous capacity and mental bandwidth -- Wallace's paradox -- Brain plasticity -- Does ADHD exist? -- The everyday exercising of our mental muscles -- Computer games -- The Flynn effect -- Neurocognitive enhancement -- The information flood and flow.
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